In 2021 starts the world’s biggest cycling race, the Tour de France, in Copenhagen. the
It confirms the race director, Christian Prudhomme, in an interview with the French media, Europe 1’s YouTube channel. It tells Ritzau.
– It will be Copenhagen for the first time in 2021. They are the meeting between the world’s biggest cycling race and the world’s greatest cycling city.
– I am extraordinarily impressed by the number of people who cycle in Copenhagen. In Copenhagen they have more bikes than inhabitants, says Prudhomme, according to the Ritzau to the French media.
Denmark has, without doubt, a strong generation of young cyclists. There are riders who have won stages not just in the Tour de France, but also in the Vuelta a Espanã, says Prudhomme.
Løbsdirektøren informs that must be run a time trial and two stages in Denmark.
– It will start with a time trial past the major monuments, as Copenhagen is known for. It will be a little over 13 miles long.
– It will be a quick trip past the beautiful monuments, also the royale, so it comes past the royal family, that has a connection with France via the Montpezat family. It has been in our considerations, ” says Prudhomme.
– the Second stage will undoubtedly be aesthetically pleasing and sporty, interesting, because it ends after an 18 km drive across the water over a gigantic bridge.
– The third stage will give an advantage to the sprinters and go down towards the German border, says Prudhomme.
Europe 1, however, has since removed the story from their website, like finance minister Kristian Jensen’s tweet about the Tour starts in Denmark in 2021, has also been deleted.
But the story can still be found on the French media Twitter-profile:
It is the Danish champions Alex Pedersen, and not least by Joachim Andersen, who in over six years, has been struggling to pull over to Denmark. Andersen went to Tour director Christian Prudhomme in Paris in november 2012, after which the Danish bid gradually took shape.
Since, the parties have developed a close relationship, which in the summer meant that Andersen was invited to meet with Marie-Odile Amaury, who is the matriarch of the Amaury Group, one of the largest media groups in France. A subsidiary of the company is ASO, Amaury Sport Organisation, which organises the Tour de France and a string of other races.
– It is really a good news, and of course I will be happy if it is true. I must just say, that I am not informed about that decision is taken, says Joachim Andersen for the Extra Magazine.
– I have not seen any sign of a final agreement, and until there is a signed agreement, we have in principle nothing, says Andersen.
not Alex Pedersen is informed that the decision on a Danish Tour-start is taken.
There is a bit of disinformation, but few are well gradually longer in doubt. The tour comes to Denmark in 2021.
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— Mette Bock (@mettebock) February 20, 2019
Extra Blade follows the story and chasing an official confirmation.
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